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By Anna Schecter
Rock Center
The State Department has punished a student exchange organization in the wake of a Rock Center probe which examined cases of sexual abuse of high school foreign exchange students.
Watch the full Rock Center investigation HERE.
San Diego-based Pacific Intercultural Exchange (P.I.E), one of the organizations highlighted in the March 14 report, was banned from participating in the State Department program.
As reported by Rock Center, P.I.E. placed a 16-year-old German exchange student in the home of a single host father, 51-year-old Craig Ley, who repeatedly sexually abused the student in his Oregon home over the course of the 2009 academic school year.
Lawyers for the student filed suit against Ley and P.I.E., alleging sexual battery, negligence, breach of contract and violation of the Unlawful Trade Practice Act.
According to the lawsuit, P.I.E allowed Ley to host the boy despite a 2004 federal felony for mail fraud in which Ley, an insurance claims manager, processed a false insurance claim using the name and joint bank account of an exchange student he was hosting at the time. In addition, Ley, who is divorced, was in bankruptcy between 2005 and 2010 but was allowed to host the boy in 2009.
P.I.E. has vigorously fought the lawsuit, asserting that the sex between Ley and the boy was consensual. The case is set to go to trial later this month.
Ley pleaded guilty to four counts of second-degree sex abuse in 2010 and was sentenced to five years in prison.
A State Department official said P.I.E. was suspended for violating the Department's regulations "that directly affect the health, safety and welfare of students,"
"Given the formal process for sanctioning a sponsor," the official said, "we cannot comment further on the situation at this time…Our primary concern is for the health, safety and welfare of the participants in these programs, and our decision was based on this concern."
The German student victimized by Ley is one of dozens of exchange students who have alleged that they have been sexually abused by host parents.
Fifty high school foreign exchange students reported being sexually abused or harassed by a host parent during the 2010-2011 school year alone, according to data released by the State Department in response to the March Rock Center report.
A State Department official said this is a small percentage of the 25,000 foreign high-school students who come to America on special visas each year.
Rock Center interviewed two students who were sexually abused by the same host father. Educational Resource Development Trust (E.R.D.T.) placed the second student in the home of the perpetrator in 2005 even after the first student had alerted the organization about the host father's inappropriate conduct the year before.
The students filed suit in 2010 and E.R.D.T. settled for an undisclosed amount without admitting liability. E.R.D.T. was never sanctioned by the State Department and is still operating.
Despite its suspension, P.I.E is still listed as one of the 82 exchange organizations that the State Department endorses to bring students to the U-S.
The P.I.E. website still advertises student exchange and features a video of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton endorsing the State Department exchange programs.
P.I.E President John Doty is the former Executive Director of the Council on Standards for International Educational Travel (CSIET), the trade association that lobbies on behalf of the organizations that bring students to the U.S. under the umbrella of the State Department's "Secondary School" exchange program.
P.I.E. did not respond to a request for comment on this story.
An employee of P.I.E. said the organization is still operating, and is communicating with the State Department in order to "work this out."
More from Rock Center:
- Foreign exchange students sexually abused in program overseen by State Department
- State Dept: Fifty teens allegedly sexually abused or harassed by host parent last year
- High School foreign exchange students repeatedly placed with convicted murderer
- Resources on the Foreign Exchange Program
- Critics blame State Department for turning a blind eye to sex abuse


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It's been ten years since Enger's other hugely successful novel Peace Like a River. Virgil Wander is not a fast read and has a few loose ends, but is not cumbersome. It is character driven and takes some time to unfold, but Enger's sentences are rich and surprising; he's funny, thoughtful, whimsical, and is a master storyteller. It's the ordinary stuff of life that he makes extraordinary in this novel.
Virgil lives in Greenstone, Minnesota on the shores of magnificent Lake Superior, the largest freshwater inland sea in the world. In some ways the town is rather inconsequential and perhaps even dying, falling on some hard times. Strange hard luck sorts of things keep happening that suggest something sinister is going on. There's plenty of symbolism to pick apart and themes to discover: about the raven, and the sea, and a man walking on water. I wonder if the author's choice of the name Virgil refers to Dante's guide through hell? Certainly he wanders in his attempt to get back on his feet after an accident that propels the reader straight into the book at the beginning!
Virgil Wander's car flies off the road one snowy night into icy Lake Superior. He survives but his language and memory are altered and he emerges into a world no longer so familiar to him. Virgil begins to piece together his personal history but also the lore of this broken town, with the help of a cast of unforgettable characters—from Rune, a twinkling, pipe-smoking, kite-flying stranger investigating the mystery of his disappeared son; to Nadine, the reserved, enchanting wife of the vanished man, to Tom, a journalist and Virgil's oldest friend; and various members of the Pea family who must confront tragedies of their own. Into this community returns a shimmering prodigal son who may hold the key to reviving their town.


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If you are ready to have the body of your dreams, you have to be reedy to work harder than you ever have in your life. TapouT XT is the toughest, most extreme workout there is. Only the tough minded can survive this MMA inspired workout program. But, if you get through you will be rewarded with a lean, mean, butt-kicking machine. To help you get through all three phases and all twelve weeks is the TapouT XT Schedule.
The schedule is a wall calendar that tells you exactly what you need to be doing every day to stay on track towards your new body. Every row on the calendar is a new week. The schedule is divided into the three phases of the TapouT XT workout. Each phase is four weeks long. Every day on the calendar the workout you have to do is listed.
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Just a quick note -- the University of Northwestern Ohio men's basketball team is playing an exhibition game Thursday (11/3) at Savage Hall against the University of Toledo. If you're so inclined, come on up and watch the Racers first competition against a NCAA Division I opponent. It's quite a turnaround -- five years ago, UNOH athletics were reborn and now we're playing the big boys. Pretty sweet.
This is an exciting Racers team, with returning leading scorer Jake Bolyard and transfer guard Johnny Elliott leading the team. Here's a season preview posted to the UNOH site, written by some guy: http://www.unohracer...article/678.php
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What: Perfectly Normal Sex couples workshops for "perfectly normal people"
When: Nov. 2 and 3
Where: Chautauqua Community House, Boulder
Cost: $500 per couple; $425 if you register early
Info: perfectlynormalsex.com, firstname.lastname@example.com, 303-800-5403
How to connect intimately when your sex life changes
Here are some tips from Perfectly Normal Sex:
Know what normal sex looks like. And that's not necessarily the images you see in the movies. Long-term intimacy ebbs and flows, has ups and down, pains and pressures and is different for everyone.
Remember all aspects of intimacy. Beyond the physical connection, you can share thoughts and feelings, too.
Don't expect sex to be linear. It's more like a flow chart with many different doorways and responses. You do not need to be aroused before sexual connection and touching starts. In fact, nobody needs to feel desire to achieve an intimate connection.
Just be together and explore your senses. Take the pressure off to reach an end result.
Make it a priority to spend time together, regardless of how you feel. Just see what happens. Accept where you are at that moment.
Find comfortable, nurturing intimate positions that you both enjoy.
(Note: This story was updated Nov. 5, 2013, for clarity.)
Sometimes, it just doesn't work.
For some couples, hormonal changes related to a new baby or menopause may get in the way of how they want their sex life to be — or think it should be. How it used to be.
Other couples struggle with cancer treatments, high stress, injuries, low libido, exhaustion or just not enough time.
In fact, middle-aged Americans are the least happy with their sex lives, according to an Associated Press-LifeGoesStrong.com survey.
The AP found only 7 percent of middle-aged Americans were extremely satisfied with their sex lives, and nearly a quarter reported to be dissatisfied. The satisfaction dropped as respondents got older.
Another study published in the American Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy found most men (54 percent) and almost as many women (42 percent) were unhappy with how much sex they were having; most wanted more.
Thirty million American men experience erectile dysfunction. And nearly three out of four women have pain with intercourse at some point in their lives, according to the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists.
That's why Jenn Weede, of Lafayette, couldn't have pain-free intercourse with her husband. A head injury, resulting in autoimmune dysfunction, caused chronic inflammation that affected her pelvis. She lived with the pain for more than 12 years, and it nearly destroyed her marriage, she says.
Until they rewrote their definition and expectations of what it means to be intimate, she says.
Today, Weede is among the vast group of businesspeople and volunteers throughout Boulder County dedicated to improving the community's sex lives.
Weede and her husband run called Perfectly Normal Sex, which organizes workshops to teach couples new tools and resources to reawaken their intimate relationship — whatever that may look like for each individual couple. At the root of Perfectly Normal Sex is the belief that sex does not need to be linear or goal-oriented.
Their next workshop is Nov. 2 and 3 in Boulder.
A 'hotspot for sexual healing'
This kind of workshop is far from rare in a town like Boulder, which Weede calls a "hotspot for sexual healing," with its wide offering of sex-centric events, exhibits, workshops, businesses and hangouts.
Weede says the number of sexperts in Boulder seems to be disproportionately high, compared with many other typical American cities. Boulder boasts a long list of therapists who specialize in sex counseling. There's the Intimacy Institute, which provides counseling and education to help people deal with sexual concerns. The Boulder Center for Sexual Health, designed to "support your journey toward sexual fulfillment."
Then there are workshops like Tantric Sacred Journeys and Beyond the Bedroom. Soul Sex, offering "advanced human development training" to help you respond to sexual energy. Sacred Sexuality classes. The regular BEDTalks series on intimacy and sex.
Boulder even has a strong interest in Orgasmic Meditation, with a group called OneTaste Colorado. This group trains "men to touch women skillfully" and women to "feel more in their bodies," according to the OneTaste Colorado Meetup page, with more than 450 members.
"It's yoga for your orgasm," the page explains.
Boulderite Victor Warring attended a OneTaste event.
Although he does not teach "omming," he says he has attended community omming events, whereby a woman's clitoris is touched in a specific way for 15 minutes. As Warring explains it, the woman being stroked is naked from the waist-down. Some people choose to switch partners.
"People probably assume it's a sex party, which it's not. In fact, many teachers would go as far to say omming isn't sex," Warring says. "They liken it to a meditation practice."
Warring is the founder of Embodied Intimacy, which strives for "sexual re-education" of the public. You may have seen him and his partner, Elena Zubulake, holding signs every week outside the Boulder Farmer's Market, advertising, "Free sex." They're talking about open, free discussions about it.
Embodied Intimacy teaches people to "un-domesticate" their relationships through experimental movement and dance, improv, bodywork, play and more — to live in your "animal body in relationship."
Warring, a somatic sexuality educator with a background in anthropology and psychotherapy, says a mismatched libido and sexual lows in a long-term relationship are incredibly common. His solution is body-centered, and specific to each person. That may include group workshops, pleasure education or participation in one of his regular erotic dance jams.
The next Jam Erotique is 8-10:30 p.m. Nov. 16 at the BodyWork Bistro in Boulder. The event is $20 and open to the public with an RSVP to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Warring says Boulder is a receptive place to many kinds of unusual modalities, such as his body-centered approach to sexuality education.
"However, doing this work in Boulder is a double-edged sword, because while people are open, there's a lot of people doing a lot of different kinds of work — almost like 57 channels and there's nothing on," he says. "It can be hard for people. There's so much here. On any given night in Boulder, there can be 10 workshops, and three can be almost the exact same workshop. In some ways, it's great, and in some ways there's a glut."
Sharing what they learned
Over the years, Weede and her husband, Dave Levine, learned new strategies to evolve their sex life.
Now, they hope to share what they learned.
Plus, she says, as Boulder residents grow older, they often find their bodies aren't working in quite the same way. Sexually, physically and athletically, Levine says.
"We tend to be a very physically oriented community, but what is challenging is, as people start aging, you're going to have more bumps and bruises," he says. "I see it as a unique opportunity to expand your repertoire. Not eliminate your physicality."
Instead of categorizing your activity into what you can or cannot do, explore what might be possible if you try something different. For example, he says, if it hurts to run a marathon, why not try a triathlon instead?
Euphemism or not.
Contact Staff Writer Aimee Heckel at 303-473-1359 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Solar halo over Santiago de Compostela
I'm currently with my family, who are here for a few days for my Father's birthday. Today we went to see the swinging of the botafumeiro in the Cathedral, about the least religious religious ceremony you're ever likely to encounter. Following this we had a spot to eat, and headed back to my flat, when I looked up and saw this:
A phenomenal solar halo! I've been wanting to get a glimpse of one of these for as long as I can remember and have never seen one with this intensity. The sky is pretty clear but presumably the ice crystals in the atmosphere which cause the 22 degree halo are currently plentiful enough that we get this stunning solar performance.
For lots more information about this and other effects I highly recommend going to the atmospheric optics website which has a wealth of pictures and discussion about this sort of amazing effect!


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Forget Lab Rats: Testing Asthma Drugs on a Microchip
Forget lab rats. Some researchers are now testing medicines on a silicon chip that could provide a better read on how a drug will work.
These scientists are building "organs on a chip," spooling together the important cells that make up, say, a lung, and then mimicking the key functions of the organ. Then researchers test to see what kind of impact a potential drug has on this lung-like system, created on a chip that is only a few inches long.
Companies are starting to tinker with this new technology, mostly for internal decision-making, since health regulators haven't yet authorized their use in decisions about whether a compound can enter human testing.
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Source: Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University
At Merck & Co.'s labs in Boston, researchers are looking at using microchips engineered to resemble a diseased lung in their hunt for a new asthma treatment.
Company scientists want to see whether these "lungs on a chip" can help them better understand the biology behind asthma and identify promising candidates for medicines, says Don Nicholson, who oversees Merck's respiratory drug research.
If efforts like Merck's pan out, drug makers could have a powerful new tool, and avoid wasting millions of dollars chasing compounds that will flame out.
The lung on a chip demonstrates the feasibility of the concept, says Christopher Austin, director of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, a part of the National Institutes of Health that's helping fund projects to replicate a variety of tissues and organs.
"Ultimately we're going to have a 10-organ system we put together," says Michael Shuler, chairman of Cornell University's biomedical engineering department.
For now, the technology is a work in progress. Regulators aren't ready yet to scrap the need for animal testing or other current methods for determining whether a promising molecule seems safe and effective enough to move into testing in patients.
Drug makers are still vetting the initial entries, while various laboratories try to develop chips mimicking the function of the kidney, liver and other organs.
"There's a lot of additional work that's needed before these systems can replace our current methods to evaluate a drug's safety or effectiveness. The potential is there, however," says Douglas Throckmorton, deputy director for regulatory science at the FDA's drug division.
The lung on a chip doesn't recreate everything a lung does, but replicates many of the important functions. It consists of a see-through strip of silicone rubber about the size of a memory stick, with tiny, hollow channels through which air and fluid can pass. These channels are split by a flexible membrane, whose sides are lined by walls of human lung tissue and blood-vessel cells.
Like in breathing, the walls of cells can relax and contract, thanks to the application of suction. As in a living lung, air flows over the human lung cells lining one side of the membrane, while a fluid mimicking blood passes by the capillary blood vessels on the other side.
Researchers at Harvard University's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, which unveiled the lung on a chip in 2010, infected it by sending bacteria past the lung cells and then watched the immune cells flock to and then attack the bacteria as happens in the real organ.
Likewise, the researchers afflicted the lung on a chip with a condition, known as pulmonary edema or fluid on the lungs, that makes breathing difficult.
"You actually mimic complex organ responses," says Donald Ingber, the Wyss Institute's founding director.
Working with the institute, drug maker GlaxoSmithKline PLC tested a potential drug's effect on the diseased human lung on a chip, and found that it replicated the response seen in dog, mice and rat models of pulmonary edema.
GlaxoSmithKline is now exploring how to use the device to assess the safety and efficacy of other respiratory compounds, says Kevin Thorneloe, a senior Glaxo scientist.
Such validation raises hopes that organs on a chip could improve drug discovery. Only one out of 10,000 compounds discovered in a lab will eventually receive approval for use in patients, typically after more than a decade of R&D and tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in investment, according to studies.
The limitations of animals as stand-ins for human patients are a major reason. Animal disease doesn't faithfully replicate asthma, for instance. The condition is uniquely human, says Merck's Dr. Nicholson, and animal models can't capture the constriction of airways and all of the other characteristics of the disease.
"We have found great mechanisms that can control asthma in an animal," he says. "And most of them have failed" in humans.
Merck aims to configure the lungs on a chip to resemble the lungs of some patients genetically predisposed to asthma, Dr. Nicholson says.
The company wants to explore the biological differences between these diseased lungs and healthy ones.
Merck also wants to probe the effects that potential drug mechanisms might have on the diseased lungs.
AstraZeneca PLC's neuroscience unit is in talks to use a liver microchip, made by closely held Hurel Corp., for some testing to see how quickly a molecule gets metabolized, says Doug Burdette, an AstraZeneca research project leader.
Such information is helpful when figuring out what kind of dose would be needed for the compound to provide a benefit and avoid unwanted side effects.
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Another day, another group! And so much fun in stitching up the strips to make the two small blocks in Garden Party"
"I'm scared of such small pieces!" I often get when we are getting ready to sew.
As long as you are sewing the SAME seam allowance, small pieces are not a problem!
1 1/2'' strips are my FAVORITE size, and I love the many things we can do with them. Finishing at only 1", the fabrics just SPARKLE! And if that fabric is fairly ugly, there is not that much of it showing so chances are you are only going to get a spot of color.
Small blocks rock!
The pattern for Garden Party is found in the Addicted to Scraps book. Do you have your copy yet?
And this wasn't ALL of our day. After finishing up the class, boxing up the supplies, machines, and clearing the room – we headed out to the Chaska High School to set up for last night's lecture.
There was a line of people already waiting to get in as we came through to set up for my presentation.


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Here's just a few items to keep you busy over the weekend. Best wishes for the holiday season from all of us at NCSE.
- The North Carolina Town That's Scared of Solar Panels, Revisited, Vox, December 18, 2015 — Dave Roberts re-examines the town which blocked a solar farm—one worry was reportedly that the panels would "suck up all the energy from the sun"—looking at the roots of NIMBYism and tools for overcoming it.
- This Ancient Femur Might Muddle Up Human Evolutionary History, Washington Post, December 21, 2015 — Researchers found a femur in China that adds to the growing evidence that human relatives once thought long-extinct may have lived as recently as 10,000–20,000 years ago.
- How Science Education Can Save the World, Huffington Post, December 21, 2015 — University of Massachusetts professor Scott Auerbach tells us how science education can help us save the world (and stop climate change). Hint: the answer involves rethinking how we approach science and mathematics with students.
- Animated Life: The Living Fossil Fish, The New York Times, December 22, 2015 — This animated documentary covers the discovery of the so-called living fossil, the coelecanth, described here as "an awesome survivor and one of the biggest natural history surprises of the 20th century."
- A Deeper Confusion (PDF), Evolution: Education and Outreach, 2015 — A detailed and informative review of two popular books about junk DNA—John Parrington's The Deeper Genome and Nessa Carey's Junk DNA—by Georgi K. Marinov, who worries that they are "guaranteed to only generate even deeper confusion."


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Saint Potamon of Heraclea
- Potamon of Alexandria
- Potamone…
Bishop of Heraclea, Egypt. Tortured, mutilated and crippled for his faith during the persecutions of Maximinus Daia in the early 4th century. Attended the Council of Nice in 325 and zealously opposed Arianism. Friend of Saint Athanasius whom he defended in the Council of Tyre in 335. When the Arian Gregory grabbed power in Egypt in 341, he had Potamon beaten with clubs and left for dead; Potamon received medical help, survived his inujuries for a while, but eventually died from the damage. Martyr. Athanasius wrote about his life and referred to Potamon as a "double martyr" because of the abuse he suffered in two separate persecutions.
- in 341 in Alexandria, Egypt from injuries sustained from a beating with clubs
- "Saint Potamon of Heraclea". CatholicSaints.Info. 2 June 2017. Web. 19 September 2020. <>


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- Approximately 9" tall
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- As with all handmade items, variations will occur
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The Artisan Women's House, apart of Movimiento Manuela Ramos, began in 1993 with the goal of improving Peruvian artisans' quality of life and to promote the consumption and value of these artisans' work. Manuela Ramos offers a line of accessories, such as hats and mittens that are 100% alpaca, along with dolls made in fine natural fibers. All of their products are hand knit by women in Puno, an Andean region in the south ofPeru known for the quality of its textiles. The women here, aside from knitting, also tend livestock, work in agriculture, and care for their families.
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Each stuffed animal is hand-knit by an artisan in the Puno region of Peru, an area known for its rich cultural history and high-quality textiles. Despite being an international tourist destination, Puno remains one of the poorest regions of Peru. Manuela Ramos began its Artisan Women's House in an effort to improve artisans' quality of life. In addition to knitting, the female artisans also care for their families, tend livestock, and work in agriculture.
The women knit each stuffed animal by hand using soft alpaca wool. Indigenous to Peru, luxurious alpaca wool is highly prized for its warmth, strength, and lightweight texture. Alpacas have been bred in the Andean highlands for thousands of years, and form a crucial component of the Peruvian economy and culture.
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Best known as the heart of the Inca Empire, Peru is and has been home to many diverse indigenous cultures long before the Incas arrived; its rich and varied heritage includes the ancient Incan capital of Cuzco and the lost city of Machu Picchu. The diversity, color, creativity and multiple functions of Peru's cultural identity, has serve as the fundaments for the way of life for thousands of families and communities.
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Fair Trade is an approach to international trade centered around equitable partnerships, transparency and respect. It seeks to empower marginalized producers by providing them safe working conditions, fair pay, and a means to establish a sustainable business free from exploitation. As a member of the Fair Trade Federation, we are committed to the Fair Trade principles.
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Writing and Healing for Caregivers
The Writing and Healing for Caregivers group meets every Tuesday in the Starbucks Conference Room - Side A.
Nov 12, 2013
from 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM
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Are you here with a patient as a caregiver? Are you a health care professional who takes care of patients? All caregivers need ways of addressing their exposure to illness and suffering. UNC Hospitals Bereavement Support Services, in collaboration with Project Compassion and Door to Door, is offering a weekly writing workshop geared toward self-care, restoration, and healing.
These workshops occur weekly, on Tuesdays. Bring your lunch. No writing experience is necessary.
- What time: 12-1 pm.
- Where: Starbucks Conference Room A (Upstairs)
- Facilitated by: Heidi Gessner, UNC Hospitals Palliative Care Chaplain & Bereavement Coordinator, and
Carol Henderson, writer, editor, and writing coach
Learn more about Carol at www.carolhenderson.com. For more information, call Heidi Gessner at 919-966-0716 or email her at email@example.com.


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Cover Tutor
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- Novus
- Location
- Wolverhampton, West Midlands
- Salary
- £22.64 per hour (subject to job evaluation)
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- 10 Jul 2019
- Closes
- 05 Aug 2019
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- Subject Area
- English Language / Literature, Mathematics
- Job Level
- Tutor
- Job Function
- Curriculum / Course Management
- Contract Type
- Temporary
Are you a Tutor looking for Cover work?
For more than two decades, Novus has been delivering education, training and employment opportunities to adults and young people in UK prisons.
Over the years we have built a reputation as an innovator in the fight to reduce re-offending rates by transforming people's lives through learning and skills.
We have many fantastic opportunities at HMYOI Brinsford to join our education teams as a Cover Tutor on a permanent, ADHOC basis.
Specialising in the following areas: English, Maths, ESOL, IT.
In your application please ensure you specify the areas in which you have experience and would be interested to teach in.
The purpose of these roles is to teach and engage with our learners, in order to give them the skills they need to have a better and brighter future.
To do this successfully you'll need to:
- Be passionate and experienced at delivering high quality teaching in a subject specialism.
- Have a teaching qualification and/or subject specialist qualification at Level 4 (Level 5 - new standards) with a commitment to obtain the relevant.
- Have outstanding Level 4 (Level 5 - new standards) qualification within a specified time scale.
- Have previous experience of curriculum delivery and a track record of successful learner outcomes.
Applicants must demonstrate in their application their ability to meet the key responsibilities, key result areas and Qualifications/Skills and Experience detailed within the role profile.
Successful candidates will be required to undertaking vetting for these roles.
Novus is an equal opportunities employer welcoming applications from all sections of the community. All roles are subject to job evaluation.
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The "lamestream media," as Sarah Palin calls it, may have written her off now that the former vice presidential candidate and tea party favorite has lost her principal media voice as a well-paid commentator on Fox News.
But there's no indication that Ms. Palin will go back to life in Alaska as the former mayor of a small town and then governor for two years, fishing and hunting with her family before Sen. John McCain picked her out of relative political obscurity to be his running mate in 2008.
"I was raised to never retreat and to pick battles wisely, and all in due season," she said in the one substantial interview she's given since Real Clear Politics first reported that Palin and Fox had parted ways. "When it comes to defending our republic, we haven't begun to fight! But we delight in those who underestimate us."
How well do you know Sarah Palin? A quiz.
The extent to which the conservative-leaning TV enterprise tried to keep her onboard is still unclear.
Fox reportedly offered Palin far less than the million-dollar annual contract that had included a broadcast studio at her home in Wasilla, Alaska. She turned it down, and Fox had no inclination to up the ante.
"What happened, quite simply, is that Palin's star had faded," Howard Kurtz wrote in Newsweek's the Daily Beast. "She was no longer the rock star of 2008, her future presidential ambitions the subject of constant speculation."
For Fox News, it seemed to be largely a business decision. Or as chief executive officer Roger Ailes put it in 2011, "I hired Sarah Palin because she was hot and got ratings." But there was more to it than that, it seems.
"The political climate shifted as well, with Republicans, having been shellacked in their second straight presidential election, debating a future involving [Marco] Rubio and [Chris] Christie and [Paul] Ryan but not Palin," Mr. Kurtz wrote. "And the atmosphere at Fox shifted as well. It was no longer a network in the throes of a tea party revolt and providing a platform for Glenn Beck. Fox edged a bit closer to the center, and Palin began to seem more the [actor] Julianne Moore of [the HBO movie] 'Game Change' than a political force."
In her interview with Stephen Bannon on Breitbart.com – the conservative news and opinion website founded by the late Andrew Breitbart – Palin promised to stay in the fight, pointedly targeting establishment Republicans as well as President Obama.
"Focus on the 2014 election is … imperative," she said. "It's going to be like 2010 [when Republicans took over the US House of Representatives], but this time around we need to shake up the GOP machine that tries to orchestrate away too much of the will of constitutional conservatives who don't give a hoot how they do it in D.C.
"We're not going to be able to advance the cause of limited constitutional government unless we deal with these big government enablers on our side," Palin said. "And this all ties into the problem of crony capitalism and the permanent political class in the Beltway. We need to consistently take them on election after election – ever vigilant."
That pretty much describes tea party attitudes and philosophy, and Palin urges followers to "jump out of the comfort zone, and broaden our reach as believers in American exceptionalism."
"That means broadening our audience," she acknowledges. "I'm taking my own advice here as I free up opportunities to share more broadly the message of the beauty of freedom and the imperative of defending our republic and restoring this most exceptional nation. We can't just preach to the choir; the message of liberty and true hope must be understood by a larger audience. "
Is that larger audience available for Palin's unique style of political pot-stirring?
A Rasmussen Reports poll earlier this month shows "views of the tea party movement are at their lowest point ever," with just 8 percent of those surveyed self-identifying as members of the movement, down from a high of 24 percent in April 2010. Just 30 percent have a favorable view of the movement, 49 percent an unfavorable view.
So Palin may relish the fight, but it won't be an easy one.


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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Favorable weather has helped Minnesota farmers catch up from a late start to get 70 percent of their corn crop planted.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's weekly crops and weather report for Minnesota says warm, dry weather gave farmers their best week for fieldwork yet this season. Statewide, an average of 5.1 days were suitable for fieldwork last week.
That let corn planting advance by 52 percentage points to 70 percent, though that's still below the normal pace of 84 percent. Minnesota farmers try to get their corn planted by mid-May to ensure the best yields.
Soybeans were 23 percent planted, compared with 51 percent for the five-year average, but they don't need to be planted as early as corn.
Sugarbeets are 89 percent planted, 5 points ahead of average.
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Kentucky Mushroom Mines
Posted 02 August 2004 - 02:33 PM
According to local gossip, Satanic covens gather there on certain nights of the year to conduct unholy rituals, some perhaps even involving murder. Two dead bodies were found there several years ago, and the locals will swear all day that it was the work of followers of Satan.
Drug deals are also reported to take place out at the Mushroom Mines, and that could also explain the corpses. The undeniable truth though is that locals are scared to death to go near the mines at night.
Posted 02 August 2004 - 02:38 PM
Posted 02 August 2004 - 05:17 PM
thanks for that story,KalebKellum
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Posted 05 August 2004 - 09:07 AM
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Posted 05 August 2004 - 09:11 AM
Occult practices such as Satanism can also produce many spiritual manifestations that aren't ghosts at all but perhaps negatives entities that were attracted by the ritual itself.
Posted 05 August 2004 - 09:18 AM
It was just the way you worded it, is all. Sounded like you were attributing all hauntings to occult practicies, when in reality you weren't.
I was curious and did a brief search on these mines. While I didn't initally find any paranormal info on the mines (only because I was quickly scanning the search results rather than looking hard...sometimes the paranormal info is several pages in), I did discover a news story that told of two murdered bodies being found in these mines back in Feb of this year....which will likely add to future tales for sure.
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Looks like your in my neck of the woods here in Ky. Where are the mushroom mines located or the largest town close to them?
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As security issues at home become increasingly worrisome, the White House has said President Barack Obama would be open to negotiating with Congress for new authorization for military force against Islamic State militants including a three year limit on U.S. military action and use of American troops, according to the AP's Nedra Pickler, Obama open to changes to military authority against IS. After a weeklong holiday break, lawmakers returned to Washington Monday and have started to consider the proposal with some Republicans saying it is too restrictive for the mission to succeed and some Democrats wanting more limitations on Obama's authority so the U.S. doesn't sign on for another open ended war. Obama is open to discussing every aspect of his proposal but firmly opposed to any geographic restriction on where the U.S. military pursues ISIS with strongholds in Iraq and Syria but have been operating across international boundaries. White House press secretary Josh Earnest stated, "I'm not at all going to be surprised if there are members of Congress who take a look at this legislation and decide, 'Well, I think there are some things that we should tweak here, and if we do, we might be able to build some more support for. So I think it is fair for you to assume that this reflects a starting point in conversations." Obama argues he doesn't need new authority to legally pursue the militant group as he has been launching strikes based on authorizations given to President George W. Bush after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. However, critics say Obama's use of this authority is a stretch and the White House has taken a new position making it clear it doesn't see reliance on this authorization as ideal. Once new authority is signed into law, the White House says Obama will mot longer rely on the 2001 approved authority to purse the group and rely solely on the new powers. The White House added that Congress could make that clear in the new authorization. The change also prevents any future president from interpreting the law the way Obama has since last year. On Wednesday, the U.S. Justice Department announced the arrest of three men accused of planning or supporting ISIS in Syria, AP's Deepti Hajela reports, Feds: 3 accused in Islamic State plot vocal about beliefs. Two men are charged with plotting to help the Islamic State group as evident by both online and personal conversations about their commitment and desire to join the extremists, federal authorities reported. Akhror Saidakhmetov, 19, was arrested at Kennedy Airport, where he was attempting to board a flight to Istanbul, with plans to head to Syria, authorities said. Another man, 24-year-old Abdurasul Hasanovich Juraboev, had a ticket to travel to Istanbul next month and was arrested in Brooklyn, federal prosecutors said. The two were held without bail after a brief court appearance. A third defendant, Abror Habibov, 30, is accused of helping fund Saidakhmetov's efforts. He was ordered held without bail in Florida. If convicted, each faces a maximum of 15 years in prison. New York Police Department Commissioner William Bratton said this was the first public case in New York involving possible fighters going to the Islamic State, but he hinted at other ongoing investigations. According to the federal complaint, Saidakhmetov said he intended to shoot police officers and FBI agents if his plan to join the IS group in Syria was thwarted. Loretta Lynch, who is Obama's choice to be U.S. attorney general, said "The flow of foreign fighters to Syria represents an evolving threat to our country and to our allies." The Islamic State group largely consists of Sunni militants from Iraq and Syria but has also drawn fighters from across the Muslim world and Europe.
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As the world tries to get a grip on the seemingly phantom group called ISIS, the ongoing ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia seems once again to have fallen apart as fighting continues to rage and Russia refuses to loosen its grip on Ukraine. On Wednesday, AP reported Russian courts refused to release Ukrainian prisoners whose fate has attracted global attention as Moscow's City Court turned down an appeal by Nadezhda Savchenko's lawyers leaving her to remain behind bars pending an investigation, according to the article, Russian court refuses to release Ukrainian prisoner. Savchenko, a Ukrainian military officer captured by Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine in June and put in custody in Russia, is awaiting trial on charges of involvement in the deaths of two Russian journalists in eastern Ukraine. She denies the accusations. Russia claims Savchenko voluntarily crossed the border into Russia before she was detained, but she said she was dragged across the border into the Russian custody. Savchenko has been on a hunger strike since Dec. 13 demanding her release, and her lawyers on Wednesday voiced concern about her condition. More than 11,000 people including prominent cultural figures have petitioned Russian President Vladimir Putin urging Savchenko's release. Even while in jail, Savchenko was elected to the Ukrainian parliament and named a delegate to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The European Union and the United States have urged her release. Pavel Polityuk and Anton Zverev reported, Kiev Says It Can't Withdraw Weaponry As Attacks On Ukrainian Troops Persist, the Ukrainian military said Monday it could not leave the front line in the east as required by the ceasefire due to pro-Russian separatists who advanced last week were attacking its position making it difficult to withdraw heavy weaponry. A truce to end fighting that has killed more than 5,600 people appeared stillborn last week after rebels ignored it to capture the strategic town of Debaltseve in a punishing defeat for Kiev. Nevertheless, the peace deal's European sponsors still hold out hope it can be salvaged, now that the Moscow-backed separatists have achieved that objective. Spokesman Vladislav Seleznyov said in a televised briefing: "Given that the positions of Ukrainian servicemen continue to be shelled, there can not yet be any talk of pulling back weapons." Anatoly Stelmakh, another military spokesman, said rebel forces had attacked the village of Shyrokyne overnight, along the coast on the road to Mariupol, a port of half a million that Kiev fears could be the next big rebel target. Rebel commander Eduard Basurin denied the fighters had launched any such attack, and said the situation was calm. Nearly a million people have been driven from their homes by the war between pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine and government forces. Last week's ceasefire was reached after the rebels abandoned a previous truce to launch their advance, arguing that previous battle lines had left their civilians vulnerable to government shelling. Kiev says the rebels are reinforcing near Mariupol for a possible assault on the port, the biggest city in the two rebellious provinces still in government hands. Defense analyst Dmytro Tymchuk, who has close ties to the military, said rebels had brought 350 fighters and 20 armored vehicles including six tanks to the area.


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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
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Calhoun is one of the most important American politicians and political theorists in the first half of the 19th century. He served as a member of the House of Representatives, Secretary of War, Vice-President, and Senator. In his writings he was concerned with states rights, tariff policy, limits to federal power and majority rule, and slavery.


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Badgers Beat Gophers
UW Retains Paul Bunyon's Axe for 10th Straight Year
Wisconsin has been running roughshod over the Big Ten since a disheartening loss to Ohio State almost two months ago.
When its ground game faced a surprisingly spirited challenge from upstart Minnesota, all the Badgers had to do was lean on that bone-crushing defense to win their sixth in a row.
James White rushed for 125 yards and a touchdown and No. 16 Wisconsin beat Minnesota for the 10th straight time in a 20-7 victory on Saturday.
Jared Abbrederis had seven catches for 67 yards and a touchdown and Chris Borland recovered two fumbles and forced one to tie the NCAA record for career fumbles caused. After the game, the Badgers (9-2, 6-1 Big Ten) hoisted Paul Bunyan's Axe and used it to chop the Gophers goal post when time ran out.
"We knew we'd won nine straight and 10 is kind of a solid number there, it's been a good decade for us," Borland said. "We're very proud of our tradition and we've had guys from those previous teams come back and speak with us. We're proud to build on it."
The Badgers forced three turnovers and held Minnesota to 185 total yards to dash any hopes the Gophers had of ending the longest losing streak in a rivalry that dates to 1890.
Aaron Hill returned an interception for a touchdown and David Cobb rushed for 68 yards for the Golden Gophers (8-3, 4-3). But Philip Nelson completed just 7 of 23 passes for 83 yards and the Gophers couldn't get anything going against that Badgers defense.
"That's the most underrated football team in the country," said Gophers coach Jerry Kill, who spent the day in the coaches' box, just as he has the previous four games since returning from a leave of absence to treat his epilepsy.
Joel Stave was 16 for 26 for 127 yards with one touchdown and one interception for Wisconsin, which is unbeaten since falling to Ohio State on Sept. 28. Borland's strip of Cobb midway through the third quarter gave him 14 forced fumbles for his career, which ties him with five other players for the FBS record.
One of the nation's top linebackers, Borland was all over the field. He had 12 tackles, Brendan Kelly added two sacks and the Badgers held an opponent under 10 points for the seventh time this season. Only Alabama has done it more.
The Badgers have thoroughly dominated this rivalry lately, a run that has clearly started to wear thin with the Gophers.
After the Badgers pretended to chop down one goal post, they started to cross the field toward the other end. The Gophers encircled the goalpost in front of their student section and refused to let the Badgers do it to the other one. There was some pushing and shoving, but the confrontation ended without incident.
"It's a pride thing," Nelson said.
Wisconsin coach Gary Andersen was the most vocal about the situation, saying he wasn't pleased with campus police getting involved and pushing the Badgers away from the fray.
"Do we want them down there, do we want to get in those situations? No, we don't want to get in those situations," Andersen said. "But you're supposed to carry yourself like an adult in those scenarios. I don't need somebody pointing a finger in my face when supposedly it's their job to take advantage of to protect and be the security for the stadium I suppose. It makes me mad."
For the first time in recent memory, there was some hype surrounding this late-season meeting in the most-played rivalry in the country. The Gophers had reeled off four straight Big Ten victories for the first time since 1973 and entered the game brimming with confidence.
The Badgers steamrolled into TCF Bank Stadium after racking up a staggering 554 yards rushing against Indiana last week. White took the opening handoff for 49 yards, but the Gophers defense stiffened after that.
Hill returned his interception 39 yards for a score and a 7-3 Gophers lead early in the second quarter.
But just when the Gophers appeared to be grabbing control of the game with the ball in Wisconsin territory, Kelly sacked Nelson and forced a fumble that Borland pounced on to end the threat. White ripped off a 19-yard run and punched it in five plays later to give the Badgers a 10-7 lead late in the second quarter.
The Badgers came out of halftime with a 12-play, 83-yard drive that chewed up 7:05, culminating in a 2-yard TD from Stave to Abbrederis to make it 20-7 and knock the wind out of a juiced up stadium.
"Our defense played amazing again; they saved us," Badgers guard Ryan Groy said. "We played well as an offense, but we can play better."


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I've always been fascinated by smoke, and have experimented a lot with it. So in this tutorial, I explain how to create realistic smoke, make it into a brush and use it for type. Let's light up our vector cigarettes and get started smokin'!
1. Create a New Document
Create a New document (Command + N) for print in A3 (297 x 420mm).
2. Create a Background and a Vertical Stroke
Make a rectangle with the Rectangle Tool (M) that covers the whole artboard and make it black. While the rectangle is selected go to Object > Lock > Selection (Command + 2), which will lock the object so that you can't select it.
Take your Pen Tool (P) and make a vertical stroke (click to make a start point, then click somewhere over or under the start point while holding Shift to make a vertical stroke). Make the stroke white and the fill blank. Set the weight of the stroke to 0.05mm.
3. Copy and Move Your Stroke
While your stroke is selected grab the Selection Tool (V), then hit enter and type in 0.05mm for Horizontal and 0 for Vertical. Click Copy and hold Command + D (Object > Transform > Transform Again) for around 20sec, which will perform the Tranform Again command multiple times.
4. Adjust the Transparency
While all of your strokes are selected, set the Blending Mode to Screen and Opacity to 8%. Then Group it (Command + G).
5. Draw a Shape With the Pen Tool
Take your Pen Tool (P) and draw a shape that looks something like that shown below.
6. Create the Smoke Base Effect
Now for the magical step! Make sure that the shape you just made is on the top and click it, then hit Command + Shift + Right Bracket key (Object > Arrange > Bring to Front). Select the path and the strokes and go to Object > Envelope Distort > Make With Top Object (Command + Alt + C). Check that the Blend Fidelity is set to 100 (Object > Envelope Distort > Envelope Options, there you should set the Fidelity to 100).
Now that's pretty cool, but if you take a closer look, you will see that the strokes are pretty clear. If you do not intend to make a stroke out of this you can fix it by clicking Effect > Blur > Gaussian Blur... and type in 7.0px, but since we are going to make a stroke out of it, we'll do that later (shapes you want to turn into strokes can't have effects like this one added).
7. Create a Smoke Brush
Now drag your smoke into the brushes panel. If you can't see it then hit F5. Check the New Art Brush and hit OK.
Name your brush whatever you want to, set the Direction to Up, and Method to Tints and Shades, then hit OK.
8. Create a Smoke Text Effect
Now you have your brush, but do you have something to use it for? If yes, remember to chose Effect > Blur > Gaussian Blur... and type in 0.7px when you have assembled your brush. If no, continue reading.
Take you Pencil Tool (N) and draw some letters, one letter at a time. Group them, add the stroke and set the Stroke Weight to 0.5pt.
Copy your smoky letters (Command + C) and paste them behind (Command + B). Set the Stroke Weight to 3pt. Now go to Effect > Blur > Gaussian Blur and type in 7px.
Yes, this is a Photoshop effect, so it will rasterize, but if you hit Command + K and check the Scale Strokes and Effects, then you'll be fine when you want to scale it.
Holy Smoke! You're Now Done!
I hope you learned something new, and that it will come in use sometime, if it does, I would love to see what you make out of it.
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